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Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir

56 reviews
Barbara Robinette Moss

Scribner, 2001

Find Joy In the Most Desparate of Situations
Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter is a powerful and poignant story of impoverished life as experienced by Barbara Moss. Surrounded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, malnutrition and facial deformities, Moss could easily have allowed herself to be trapped in that negative world. Instead, through determination and the kindness of a few strangers along the way, she rose above adversity and has been ...

Fierce: A Memoir

17 reviews
Barbara Robinette Moss

Scribner, 2004

Tom Dering
I read this book in three days awhile back, and still remember most of it, especially the night I bolted up in bed and turned the light on after dozing and thinking about the rattle snake and said to the air, "There has to be magic." I went back to sleep with that thought. I'll never forget the garbage can, which I think is the story of all of us at one time or another. The contemplation of ...